Author:George Henry Borrow

George Henry Borrow
(1803–1881)

George Henry Borrow

Works

• Celebrated Trials (1825) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces (1826)
• The Zincali (1841)
• The Bible in Spain (1843) (transcription project)
• Lavengro (1851) (no index; PG copy)
• The Romany Rye (1857 (No index; PG copy)
• Wild Wales (1862)
• Romano Lavo-lil: Word Book of the Romany; Or, English Gypsy Language (1874)
• Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society (1911) Edited by Thomas Herbert Darlow IA

Translations

• "Brown William" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862), from a Manx ballad
• "Mollie Charane" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862), from a Manx ballad
• "Emelian the Fool" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862), from a Russian folktale
• "The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's Ear" in Once a Week, Series 1, 6 (1862), from a Russian folktale
• "Harald Harfagr" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862), a translation of the 9th-century skaldic poem Hrafnsmál, usually attributed to Þorbjörn Hornklofi
• "The Story of Tim" in Once a Week, Series 1, 7 (1862), from a Russian folktale
• "The Count of Vendel's Daughter" in Once a Week, Series 1, 8 (1863), from the old Danish ballad "Grevens Datter af Vendel" as published by Anders Sørensen Vedel in the Hundredvisebogen (1591).
• "The Hail-storm; or, The Death of Bui" in Once a Week, Series 1, 9 (1863), a translation of the Hákonardrápa by Tindr Hallkelsson circa A.D. 1000

Works about Borrow

• "Borrow, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Borrow, George," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Borrow, George Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• The Life of George Borrow (1912) by Herbert Jenkins